There is increasing concern within the health-care community about the role care delivery
plays in environmental degradation, sparking research into how to reduce pollution from …

The detrimental health effects of climate change continue to increase. Although health
systems respond to this disease burden, healthcare itself pollutes the atmosphere, land, and …

This paper describes the contents of the 2016 edition of the HITRAN molecular
spectroscopic compilation. The new edition replaces the previous HITRAN edition of 2012 …

With an estimated worldwide volume of 266 million surgeries in 2015, the call for general
inhalation anesthesia is considerable. However, widely used volatile anesthetics such as N …

The Earth's mean surface temperature is already approximately 1.1° C higher than pre‐
industrial levels. Exceeding a mean 1.5° C rise by 2050 will make global adaptation to the …

The healthcare sector is a driver of economic growth in the US, with spending on healthcare
in 2012 reaching $2.8 trillion, or 17% of the US gross domestic product, but it is also a …

A pathway to net zero emissions for healthcare Page 1 A pathway to net zero emissions for
healthcare The healthcare sector has a profound responsibility and opportunity to reduce …

In the mid‐1970s, it was recognized that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were strong
greenhouse gases that could have substantial impacts on radiative forcing of climate …

BACKGROUND: Anesthesiologists must consider the entire life cycle of drugs in order to
include environmental impacts into clinical decisions. In the present study we used life cycle …

Objectives. To determine the carbon footprint of various sustainability interventions used for
laparoscopic hysterectomy. Methods. We designed interventions for laparoscopic …